<![CDATA[Stage Door: Scenes From An Execution, The Marriage of Bette and Boo]]>

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Scenes From an Execution is aptly titled. It refers to both an epic painting of a famed Venetian battle and the imprisonment of the unapologetic artist who created it.
Galactia, a 16th-century woman painter, is commissioned by the Venetian republic to commemorate the Battle of Lepanto. But her stark realism, rather than a celebration of victory, gets her condemned as an enemy of the state. Then, as now, female power is cause for consternation.

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